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(No Model.) I W. G. BEATTIE.

Butter Dish.

N 0 234,739. Patented Nov. 23, 1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE,

WILLIAM G. BEATTIE, OF TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO REED & BARTON, OF SAME PLACE.

BUTTER-DISH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 234,739, dated November 23, 1880.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM G. BEATIIE, of Taunton, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Butter-Dish; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming partof this specification, in which Figure l is a side view with the cover closed down over the dish. Fig. 2 is a sectional view with the cover raised.

My invention relates to an improvement in butter-dishes, which is applicable to all kinds of analogous covered dishes, such as picklecasters, jewel cases, sugar dishes, bakingdishes, &c.

The object of the invention is to provide a neat and tasteful means for raising and suspending the cover in elevated position above the dish; to which end the improvement consists in arranging apulley in the upper portion of the handle and attaching to the cover a chain, which passes around the pulley and down beside the handle, so that when the chain is pulled down the pulleyis rotated and the cover raised and held in this position by fastening the chain to a hook, as hereinafter fully described.

In the drawings, Arepresents the body portion of the dish, having a glass plate, B, therein, as usual, and O is the cover. From the body of the dish there rises a bail-shaped handle, D, the two sides of which, near the top, are bent 5 inwardly toward each other and connected by bars a a, and above this point are again swelled outwardly to form ahand-hold. On an axis,

1), connecting the barsa, a, is mounted a loose pulley, 0, having a grooved periphery, over which there passes a chain, E, which is connected at one end to the top of the cover, and atthe other end passes through an eye, (I, on the side of the handle, and terminates in a ring, 6, with or without an ornamental pendant.

Now when the cover is to be raised a traction is exerted upon the free end of the chain, which rotates the pulley and lifts the cover. The ring at the end of the chain is then fastened under a hook, f, so that the cover may be thus sustained in elevated position during the meaL- Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new is- 1. In a covered dish, the combination of the body portion, having an overhanging handle, 5 a pulley located in the upper portion of the handle, and the cover, having a chain attached thereto and passing around the pulley, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The handle having its sides bent toward each other at the top and connected by bars a a. with axis b, and then extended above this point, in combination with the pulley 0, located upon axis b, and the chain E, connected to the cover, substantially as and for the purpose described.

WILLIAM OHALLEN BEATTIE.

Witnesses THEo. P. HALL, F. E. FISKE. 

